Germany, Nsdap. A Golden Party Badge, Large Version, By Deschler & Sohn certificate_of_authenticity Footnote: The LZ 130 Graf

Footnote: The LZ 130 Graf Zeppelin II was the last of the great German rigid airships built by the Zeppelin Luftschiffbau during the period between the World Wars

he was awarded the CBE for his courage under attack as a Station Commanding Officer in the United Kingdom at RAF Driffield

circumscribed by a raised inscription of “DER DEUTSCHEN MUTTER” (“TO THE GERMAN MOTHER”)

He signed his Non-Permanent Active Militia of Canada Attestation Paper on June 11

Germany, Nsdap. A Golden Party Badge, Large Version, By Deschler & Sohn certificate_of_authenticity Footnote: The LZ 130 Graf(Goldenes Ehrenzeichen der NSDAP). Constructed of gilded tombak with multi coloured enamels, the obverse consisting of a circular laurel leaf wreath, with a central white enameled disc bearing a black mobile swastika, within a ring of red enamels bearing a silvered inscription of NATIONAL SOZIALISTISCHES D. A. P. (NATIONAL SOCIALIST GERMAN WORKERS PARTY), the reverse with a barrel hinge and tapering vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, engraved